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Weather Signs.

When the atmosphere is permeated
with oak trees, wooden barns and
mansard roofs you my expect a cy-
clone,
An egg, when laid hard-boiled, is a
sign of hot weather.
If your morning paper predicts
showers, followed by cooler weather,
you may leave off your winter clothing
and pawn your umbrella.
Falling barometer is usually q sign
of rain, but if it falls off the wall or
the mantel-piece it betrays the pres
ence of earthquakes
Universal dampness, both of atmos-
phere and sidewalks, when accompa-
MED by an eruption OF umbrellas and
waterproofs, may be regarded as indi
cative of rain.
An englshman abroad is usually
the sign OF a heavy blow.
Frozen water pipes indicates colo
weather.
The earth is apt to be damp after !
heavy rain,
A change in temperature, followed
by Bostonians, indicates colder wealth
er- New York Life.
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Charles James Fox was in Parli-
mental 10.
The great Cromwell left the Uni
versity Of Cambridge at IS.
John Bright never was at any
school day after he was Is years old.
Gladstone was in Parliament at %,
and at "a was Lord of the Treasury.
Lord Bacon graduated ut Cambridge
when Is and was called to the bar at
"a.
Peel was in Parliament at q, ana
Palmerston was Lord Of the Adj
miralty at 80,
Henry Clay was in the Senate of
the United States at 20, contrary to
the Constitution,
John Hampton, after graduating at
Oxford, was a student at law in the
Inner Temple at 10.
Gustavus Adolphus assembled the
throne at 16 before he was "a he was
one of the great rulers of Europe,
Judge Story was at Harvard at Is,
in Congress at 20, and Judge of the
Supreme Court OF the United States
at 32
Martin Luther had become largely
distinguished at "A, and at 5G had
reached the topmost round of his
world wide fame.
Webster was in college at Is, gave
earnest of his great future before he
was 20, and at 80 was the peer of the
ablest man in Congress.
William II. Seward commenced the
practice of law ut q, at 81 was Pres
ident of a State Convention and at 81
Governor of New York.
Washington was distinguished
Colonel in the army at %, early in
public affairs, commander of the
forces at 43 and President at 81.
Maurice OF Saxony died at 80, con.
ceded to have been one of the pro-
foundest statesmen and one of the
ablest generals which Christendom
had seen.
Napoleon at 25 commanded the
army of Italy. At 80 he was not only
one of the most illustrious generals o
all time, but one of the great law
givers of the world. At 46 he saw
Waterloo.
The great Leo X. was Pope at SO
having finished his academic training
he took the office of Cardinal at 49,
only twelve months younger than wa
Charles James Fox when he entered
Parliament.
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Frank Leslie's Sunday Naga-
zine.

The September number OF this
welcome magazine brings together a
large number of pleasant articles COM
bining instruction and entertainment,
and all breathing forth moral spirit
though carefully avoiding the teaching
of any special religious doctrines
Among the important articles may
be found one by Walter Edgel
Mccain on THE Size and Growth oil
our national Capital, which is fully
illustrated with portraits and views Of
the City Of Washington and those
who have made it famous. Oul
Sweetheart is tender sort story by
Mrs. Denison. Professor Proctor
discourses learnedly on the Origin OF
Meteors and Comets" The two seriaI
stories both keep up and indeed in
creases their interest, and the short
articles and poems are very good and
entertaining.
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The west-bound express was robbed
on Wednesday night thirty miles east
Of Tuesno, Arizona. The train was
ditched and the express car robbed by
four robbers. The sheriff and a posse
are on the trail which leads to the
Incon mountains.
Miss Coldcash--Do You know, Mr.
Guflan, that pa remarked brutally the
other day that he was going to dress
me one more season"
Young Guflan.--dear me, Miss
Coldcashl how ! like to-aw-see
You two years from now.-Town Top
les.
Richmond Dispatch: Strange as il
may appear, the objection to Utah's
admission into the union is that the
union sentiment out there is too pro-
miseuous.
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SOUTHWARK No. 6. "a r.
CONNECTIONS.

AT CHATTANOOGA with railroad lines diyerg.
ing, making direct close connection for an
points Northwest, West and Southwest.
AT CLEVELAND with Georgia and Alabama d.
vision for Atlanta, Calera Montgomery. New
Orleans and all points South, Southeast and
Southwest.
AT KNOXVILLE with Ohio Division and Knox
Vile Railroad and Main Line trains Nos. 3 Il
AT JUNCTION CITY with c., N. o. & T. p. II. r
North and South.
AT JELLICo with Louisville and Nashville K.
r. for Louisville and Northwestern points.
AT MoBRIsTowN with North Carolina Division
for Warm Springs, n. C, and all Western and
Middle North Carolina points
AT RoGERsvIILE june ION with Rogersyile
and Jefferson Railroad.
AT JOHNSON CITY with East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina i,ailroad.
AT BRISTOL with Norfolk and Western Rail-
road, connecting closely for all Virginia and
Eastern cities, via Lynchburg and all Eastern
Middle and Northern States via Roanoke and
Shenandoah Valley route.
SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE.
Nos. and have Pullman Sleepers between
Memphis and New York via Shenandoah Valley
rorth, Alsn Pullman Sleeping Cars between
Cleveland and New orleans, via Calera and
Montgomery.
Nos. 8 and have Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars between Chattanooga and New York, via
Shenandoah valley route. Also Pullman Sleep
ng Cars between New Orleans and Washington
via Atlanta, Cleveland and Lynehburg. Also
Sleepers between Knoxville and Louisville on
Nos, 35 and Sc.
Nv. WRENN, G. p. &TA.
HENRY FINK, Receiver.
i. X. HUUER, Supt.
c. W. DEIiAUSSURE, A. G. +. A
Knoxville, Tenn
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Omaha Reporter -"Had big
drought down in Texas, l hear" Tex
as Man-'Worst kind. Why at one
time it got so bad that our local paper
actuallyprin church prayer for
rain on the editorial page" "Did it
rain?" "Well, we had a sort OF show
er week or so ago" eyes; nothing
like Advertising"
Two ladies are talking ON a Wood
ward avenue street car;
81 have just received letter from
my brother in Texas and he says they
had II cyclone there on the 18th"
"Had?'
eyes, 1t blew down fences and un-
rooted houses
"Did?"
Gle says he'll be home in the fall"
"Does"
Hes named Their new baby after
me-"
"Has?"
"Where do you get out?"
"Here!"
81 ride block further. When will
you come and see me?"
"Soon."
Over 100000 has been contributed
by Catholics over the country to make
needed repairs on church property in
Charleston, S. c., damaged by the
earthquake. There was 1929 2G
raised in New york City and 81 ,5O7 n
in Brooklyn.
About 1920 portable, and so called
fire proof, safes were introduced fol
sale into New York, last week They
were imported from France.
Governor Vance, OF North Carolina,
says all he knows about finances is
that it takes two better names than
his to get money out Of a bank.
Editor Grady, of the Atlanta Constr
tuition, predicts rousing time when
President Cleveland visits the Atlantis
Exposition on October 16.
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Ayers SarSapariI|a,
Prepared by DR.. j. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Price 81; six bottles, So.

The penitentiary at Sing Sing, New
York, contains only one newspaper
man, and he is assistant chaplain,
An exchange remarks that newspaper
men are seldom left-even in the pen
itenuary.
1t was midnight and an impassion-
ed lover in an uptown drawing room
kneeled at the feet OF his hearts choice
and exclaimed; "Gertie, | will dc
anything in this world to make you
happy" "Do you mean it, George
81 do, l do, darling" "Then for heav.
ems sake go home and let me go tC
bed"
July, 1887, will be memorable al
dating the terrible hot spell of the cen
fury. 1t is ascertained that the tenn
perature of last month exceeds thu
temperature of any July during thu
late eighty years.
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After taking ten bot
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Highlands, Mass.
Ayers Sarsaparilla
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PATENTS

Obtained, and all other business in The U S.
Patent Office attended to for MODERATE FEES.
Our Office is opposite the U. S. Patent Office
and we can obtain Patents in less time than
those remote from WASHINGTON.
Send MODEL OR DRAWING. We advise as
to patentability free of charge and we make
No CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT.
We refer here, to the Postmaster, the Supt. OF
Money Order Div, and to officials Of the U. S.
Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms, and
references to actual clients in your own State OF
county, write to
G. A. SNOW & CO.,
Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D c.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03


during the past thirty years? A man must
have reached the superlative degree of cranki-
ness to wish her voice silenced
Though Adelina Maria Clorinda Patti was
born in Madrid, in 1S43, her family moved to
New York the following year. 1t was there
that her early musical training was received,
SO she may be claimed an an American. Her
brother -in-law was Maurice Strakosch, and it
was he who first brought her before the pub
lie in New York, in 1859. She had sung in
concerts from the age of 8. In 1861 she sang
in Italian opera in London, and Immediately
won a success which has made her prime
favorite with the English public since. In
1862 she captured the Partisan hearts, and in
1870 she visited Russia, and her voice SO cap
tivated the emperor that he decorated her with
atitle, and appointed her first singer at the inn
perial court. In 1868 Nine. Patti was married
to the Marquis de Caux, but the noble was un-
worthy of her, and they were legally sep
arated.
Mime. PATHS sister, Carlotta, is also gifted
with beautiful voice. 1t is described as the
highest soprano ever known, reaching to G.
sharp in alt. Her powers of execution are
also extraordinary, but owing to slight
lameness she has refrained from exhibiting
her talents on the stage and has confined them
TO concerts.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
cOQUELIN, THE FRENCH ACTOR.

lie Is Soon Coming to This Country to
be Seen and Heard.
Coquelin is to make his appearance in New
York in the immediate future. Coquelin is
an actor from the Comedie Francaise cele-
brated in his own country to greatness, and
already in this to the point of being the sub
ject of seven magazine pages by Henry
James. One may read them through and
gather therefrom an idea that NJ. Coquelin is
no end of a figure in his profession, with a
repertory as long as the tail of comet; but
as for getting any impression of the man from
those seven pages, that is something nobody
can do, not even a Hindu adept who goes
around in his astral body and finds out all
things.
Two things one can learn from Mr. James
article, however. First, that he began to be
educated in dramatic taste seventeen years
ago when he first saw Coquelin act Second,
that Coquelin has voice. 1t must he very
remarkable voice, because it isn't sweet, but
it is extraordinarily clear firm and ringing,
and seems to have peculiar power to carry.
Mr. James says that as he wrote he seemed to
hear it ascend like rocket (which goes up
with long fizz-z-z, as everybody knows,)
to the great, hushed dome of the the
ater of the Rue de Richelieu, and that
it then vibrated and lashed the air at great
rate. 1t seemed to proceed from some
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

The Illustrations give at glance the ap-
pearance and plan of the structure. The
height of the tower will be 400 feet above the
pavement 1t will be circular in form, con-
structed of red and white brick and stone.
The outer wall will be seven feet thick at the
bottom and two feet thick at the top. The
diameter of the tower will be sixty feet at
the bottom and one-half that diameter at the
top There will be elevators to raise pas
sengers to the summit, and for those who will
not trust these mechanical contrivances there
will be two sets of stone steps provided be-
tween the outer and inner walls whereon
they can ascend or descend on foot
Outside galleries viii be constructed half
way up the structure and around the top
Here will be restaurant and smoking room
with accommodation for about 600 people at
one time.
There was a tower of observation some
what on the same plan at the centennial ex-
hibition at Philadelphia Now Paris is about
constructing a similar tower to be nearly
1000 feet high, but both Paris and London
possess drawback to the use Of such tower,
and that is fog. Unless they can abolish Lon
don fog by an act of parliament the proposed
Victoria Memorial tower will he useless much
of the time
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
TOBOG ORNOT TOBOG--SHAKS-
PEARE ICE.

Tobog. or not tobog that is the question;
Whether It's wiser in man to shuttle
Der slides and slip-ups of uncleaned' sidewalks
Or to take sled against hill of ice, sir, ssss
And by a scoot down, get there! To slide, to
slip;
To soar and, by that slip, to reach the end,
The wind up, and the thousand bruising bumps
That flesh is prone tots a combusticatlon
Deyoutly to be dished To slide to slip:
To Slip Perchance to flop; aye, there's the
rub
For in that slip down hill what scrapes may
come;
When we have scratched up all this mortal
hide,
And skinned our paws there's the respect
That makes calamity of that long slide;
For who would bear the cuts and smarts OF
coasts;
The steerer's wrong, the starters stupidity,
The pangs of o'erturned loads, the crushed up
sleigh,
The twenty five cents out. and the smarts
That patient merit bears when sweet girls
snicker,
When he himself might his quietus take
Off toboggan? Who would ride a sled
To scoot and gasp under a hrose blanket,
But that the dread of not being fashionable
That awful bete noir, fran whose frown
No tobogganer returEs-masters the hill,
And makes us rather take the ills we fear,
Than fly in haste from the toboggan slide!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

Northtield is situated at point where
three ates-Massachusetts, Vermont and
New Hampshire-meet and where the scenery
begins to show evidence of the mountainous
character that it obtains farther north. The
project of the Moody schools was broached
by their founder in 1879, and his troops of
friends in Europe and America stood ready
with pecuniary aid. Mr.. Moody had very
clear ideas of what he wanted; to make
the Bible the foundation of all culture,
to prepare young men and women for life by
combining classical and industrial education
these We're his objects. He has succeeded
admirably, for there are now many more APP
plicants for admittance than the schools can
accommodate.
The points of difference between the Moody
schools and other institutions of learning
with the same or similar avowed objects are
many and interesting. In the first place Mr..
Moody has acquired sufficient land to enable
him to put into practice any plan he might
afterward wish to take advantage Of; SO that
the grounds Of the girls seminary comprise
$50 acres, and those of the boys school 400.
In both schools rigorous exclusion of appli-
cants, who seem from habit or otherwise to
be unfit for admission, is exercised. In the
seminary girls wishing to enter must be Is
years of age and in good health.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

This last stipulation is very necessary, as
they are expected ito perform all the work
of house under the supervision of a matron."
There are two courses of study, each cover
ing three years. In the Latin course Cicero,
Cesar and Virgil are read, while English
composition is a prominent feature Of both
courses. Greek, French and German are
elective studies, as is also trigonometry, while
algebra and geometry are required from all.
In every class the Bible is text book. The
whole cost of board and tuition for year is
500. Though others have failed in the CON-
bination of household and school duties, Mr..
Moody seems to have struck the golden mean
in not making the exercises of the one branch
so heavy as to prevent the proper operation
Of those of the other.
The boys school is four miles distant from
the site of the girls seminary, and is named
Mount Hermon. 1t is just as vigorously
selective as that of the girls, the trustees stat
ing that "lazy, disorderly or vicious boys
will not be received knowingly, or long re-
tained if received ignorantly" Pupils must
be 16 years Of age, and are received on pro-
baton only. Here are some of the questions
proposed to the candidates for admission:
"Has the candidate shown an ambition to ex-
eel in anything" "Has he formed any pur-
pose in life!" "What are his prominent traits
of characterp "Has he had any bad compan-
ionships" "Why do you wish to send him to
this school!' 1t will be seen that the exami
nations are of the most searching kind, and
they will effectually debar from membership
any one who has no real interest in his own
culture and advancement. The boys are also
required to work on the farm two or three
hours each day and to turn their hands to
all varieties of field labor and to the care of
live stock. This department of the work is
under the supervision of practical farmer.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

THOMAS JEFFERSON. ana portion or
them were driven to cannibalism. All of bis
animals and many of his men perished. He
finally discovered route which conducted
him to Sacramento in the spring of lS49. He
decided to live in California, and was sent as
one of the two senator's to represent the new
state in the United States. In drawing lots
for the terms Of the respective senators,
Fremont drew the short term, ending March
4, 1851. The senate remained in session but
three weeks after the admission of California.
During that time Fremont devoted himself to
the interests of the state he represented. He
went to Europe and was received with dis
tinction by men eminent in letters and science.
He made another expedition to California
in the fall of 1853, under governmental au-
thority, enduring great hardships. This time
his party lived on horsefesh fifty days. After
his defeat in the presidential contest of 1856
be again visited Europe, and when the civil
war broke out he was made major general
and assigned to the command of the western
district He was relieved from his command
before many months for issuing an order
emancipating the slaves in his district Three
ths later he was APPOINTED commander of
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The V. A. s. f..
Communicated |


From the maddening crowd they stand apart,
Those maidens four and the work of art
And none could tell by sight alone
In which had culture ripest grown
The Gotham maiden, fair to see,
The Philadelphia pedigree,
The Boston mind Of azure hue,
Or the soulful soul of Kalamazoo.
For all loved art in a seemly way
With an earnest soul and capital A.
Long they worshipped. but no one broke
The sacred silence until up spoke
The bashful soul from the nameless place,
over their faces a sad smile flew,
And they edged away from Kalamazoo,
But Gotham's naughty soul was stirred
To crush the stranger with one small word,
And deity hiding reproof in praise,
She cries "'Tis indeed lovely rdze!"
But short her unworthy triumph when
The lofty one from the house of Penn,
With consciousness of two grand papas,
Excaims, 1T is quite a lovely rdhs"
And glances around with an anxious thrill,
Awaiting the word from Beacon Hill.
But the Boston maid spoke courteously
And gently murmurs, "Oh, pardon me,
didn't catch your remark because
/ was so entranced with that lovely cause ''
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
FIFTY YEARS A QUEEN.

A Tower to Commemorate Victoria's
Jubilee.
On the 2sth of June, 1857, Victoria was
crowned queen of England. If she lives un-
til the same date this year there will be an
extensive celebration Of the event of her
golden jubilee as queen. Preparations for
this event have already begun, and it is ex-
pected the demonstrations throughout Great
Britain and the colonies will be very grand
and imposing. 1t is proposed that there shall
be erected in London, besides other monu-
ments to mark the event, giant tower, to be
used as an observatory, where natives and
visitors can get birds eye view of the great
est city in the world. The tower is to be
erected on ground belonging to the Marquis
of Salisbury, near Trafalgar square. But
the object of its construction is not altogether
the glory of the queen, for it is proposed to
charge admission to it, and it is expected it
will be very profitable enterprise